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Rodolphe Töpffer

1799 - 1846

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Rodolphe Töpffer ( TOP-fər, French: [ʁɔdɔlf tœpfɛʁ]; 31 January 1799 – 8 June 1846) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books (littérature en estampes, "graphic literature"), which are possibly the earliest European comics. He is known as the father of comic strips and has been credited as the "first comics artist in history." Paris-educated, Töpffer worked as a schoolteacher at a boarding school, where he entertained students with his caricatures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rodolphe Töpffer has received more than 136,722 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Rodolphe Töpffer is the 1,373rd most popular writer (up from 1,399th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 134th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Swiss Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 1,373 out of 5,755. Before him are Zachris Topelius, James Patterson, Boris Pahor, Diagoras of Melos, Avienus, and Marie Anne Lenormand. After him are Hovhannes Tumanyan, Salawat Yulayev, Kenji Miyazawa, Tomi Ungerer, Henry de Montherlant, and Wilhelm Müller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 14. Before him are Karl Bryullov, William Lassell, Fromental Halévy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Anna Atkins, and Christian Friedrich Schönbein. After him are Karl Adolph von Basedow, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, Countess of Ségur, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, and Vincenz Priessnitz. Among people deceased in 1846, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 9. Before him are Emperor Ninkō, Friedrich Bessel, Friedrich List, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, and Andrew Kim Taegon. After him are Otto von Kotzebue, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Domenico Dragonetti, Joseph Leopold Eybler, and Esaias Tegnér.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 138 out of 876. Before him are Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), Louis Agassiz (1807), Margareta of Romania (1949), Jaime, Duke of Madrid (1870), Max Bill (1908), and Alfonsina Storni (1892). After him are Emil Abderhalden (1877), Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Isabelle Eberhardt (1877), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Rodolphe Töpffer ranks 18. Before him are Gottfried Keller (1819), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), and Alfonsina Storni (1892). After him are Notker the Stammerer (840), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Heinrich Glarean (1488), Johann Peter Hebel (1760), and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825).

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